This is the life of ELMG Digital Power Engineers working for our global customers. So five years ago I was biking around Berlin after having spent the week with my ELMG Digital Power colleague and our customers and their customers, testing 12MW grid-connected power converters where the control did not yet quite work properly.
This is the Reichstag in the background. It was a beautiful, cool, Berlin day.
Eventually, the power converters worked really well and we eventually did the first commissioning for them when they were installed on the Qatar Metro Rail.
To address the issues we changed the software we had written and the FPGA code. This was to ensure that the gate pulses were always absolutely consistently in the right place at the right time. This is the constant challenge of power electronics. At 12MW it is very noticeable when gate pulses aren’t always in the right place.
ELMG Digital Power worked on a large-scale converter project, biked around Berlin on a day off, tested further in Japan, Turin, and Prague, and then commissioned the converters in Doha. As a result, our customer is now the leader in their market segment.
Working for our global customers’ success – this is the life of ELMG Digital Power Engineers.
This is one of many successful ELMG Digital Power Electronics engineering developments.
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FAQ
Do you do small converters?
Yes, all sizes from 100W to 500MW – we work on converters of all sizes. Grid storage, telco, motor drives, aerospace, traction. We do power converters for any application.
Where are your customers? Can you help us?
Arizona, Belgium, California, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, India, Massachusettes, New Zealand, North Carolina, New South Wales, Scotland, South Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Queensland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Yes, we can help you.
Do you need to wear a bike helmet in Berlin?
No. There is no requirement by law.
What sort of control do you use?
Mostly DSP, Microcontrollers and FPGA. Our favorite microcontrollers/DSPs are Ti ti.com. Our favorite FPGAs are Xilinx xilinx.com.
Do you have any case studies?
Contact us and we’ll provide some.
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Do you have any references?
Yes.
How long have you been doing Digital Power Electronics Control?
As ELMG Digital Power Electronics since 2001.
ELMG Digital Power People have been working on digital power electronics control since 1992.
About ELMG Digital Power
ELMG Digital Power provides technology, know-how, and products to control, manipulate and measure electrical power. This means we design and build the best digital controlled power electronic systems and by doing that we change the world.
For the past twenty-five years, we have been working on digitally controlled power converters in
- motor drives
- industrial switch mode power supplies
- reactive power compensation
- medium voltage system
- power quality systems
- motor starters
- appliances
- telecom switch-mode power supplies
- UPS
- railway converters
- grid connected energy storage converters
ELMG Digital Power helps our customers become leaders in digital power electronics.